Radiocarbon Resources

Some guides to collecting, interpreting, and applying radiocarbon data

  • SoilR: Models of Soil Organic Matter Decomposition, constrained by carbon stocks and 14C

    SoilR is a modeling framework that contains a library of functions and tools for modeling soil organic matter decomposition under the R environment for computing (Sierra et al., 2012; Sierra et al., 2014) . It implements a variety of model structures and tools to represent carbon storage and release from soil organic matter. In SoilR, organic matter decomposition is represented as a nonlinear system of ordinary differential equations that generalizes the structure of most compartment-based decomposition models. 

    Link to CRAN.
    Link to development Github
    Link to R tutorial for how to use SoilR.

  • https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-25643-6

    Radiocarbon and Climate Change

    This book is a useful guide for researchers in ecology and earth science interested in the use of accelerator mass spectrometry technology. The development of research in radiocarbon measurements offers an opportunity to address the human impact on global carbon cycling and climate change. Presenting radiocarbon theory, history, applications, and analytical techniques in one volume builds a broad outline of the field of radiocarbon and its emergent role in defining changes in the global carbon cycle and links to climate change.


    Here is the link to the book.

  • Radiocarbon constraints for the terrestrial carbon cycle

    Lecture by Susan Trumbore
    (link to the YouTube recording).